If you dig into the history of Crumpler Bags, it comes as no surprise to discover that they started off as a messenger bags company! Innovations and strategic planning made them venture into laptops, backpacks and travel luggage, building up the brand to where it is now. I wish they could redo the magic of a 2006 promo where Crumpler Stores in New York were accepting ‘beer in exchange for bags!’ Say, if I were to send in Antarctic Nail Ale, will they send me the entire Dry Red Collection? Dry Red No 1

Dry Red No. 1 is a toiletries organizer and features seven separate storage zones – two wet, five dry – plus the convenience of an inbuilt hanger strap.

Business cum pleasure…no worries, the Dry Red No. 4 accommodates a whopping 58 liters of storage! With many compartments to organize your belongings, this 3.7 kg bag is best suited for the week out-of-town! All external compartments can be locked and it comes with its own foldaway shoe bag and snooze-a-matic eye mask.

Say hello to this smart multi-tasking backpack, the one you want around for a holiday and business trips. It even features a mini office organizer up front, a padded sleeve for your 15-inch MacBook at the rear, and in between, an expandable general cargo space. It comes with its own cable pouch.

Backpack or suitcase? Suitcase or backpack? When it’s just personal belongings, your trusty 15-inch lappie and a few clothes and toiletries, you can go either way. Hence the Dry Red No. 6 — our travel light, travel right flash pack that transforms from harness to handle to shoulder strap haulage about as fast as you can change your mind.

Inspired by the classic briefcase, the Dry Red No. 7 is a very chic representation of the past. Strictly busy-ness, yet reassuringly anti-establishment, the modern form meets traditional function right here. It holds stuff, right from your passport, tickets, pens and paperwork, to your phone, other e-vices and up to a 15-inch MacBook.

Dry Red No. 8 features not one, but two padded laptop sleeves – both of them large enough to hold a 17-inch MacBook. Add to that a plethora of easy access spaces for everything from your passport, tickets, pens and paperwork, to your phone and other e-vices, and you have the ultimate portable office for doing busy-ness on the fly.

Dry Red No. 9 is a check-in size-rolling tote for the jetsetter. This briefcase-meets-suitcase is a four-wheel, five-star, seven zone shoulder, back and time saver. Light in weight yet tough enough to withstand the fiercest boardroom battles, it will hold several days of power dressing, two 17-inch laptops, plus all your paperwork, travel necessities and personal belongings.

Away for the weekend? No worries, the Dry Red No.10 is light (weighs only 2.5kgs) and accommodates 25 liters in volume. This compact Crumpler Four-on-the-Floor comprises an easy access external compartment for your travel documents, and multi-pocketed main compartment for your belongings – both of which are fully lockable.

Dry Red No.11 is an expandable carry all and sundry Crumpler Four-on-the-Floor that lets you pack for a good time and a long time. Tipping the scales at just 4.5 kilos, its 85-litres of mixed luggage spaces include ample internal and external compartments – all of which can be locked – plus a foldaway shoe bag and snooze-a-matic eye mask.